Mon.Dec 30, 2019

article thumbnail

Sonora Restaurant Rebrand with Graphic Retro-Futurist Identity

Trendland

In search of a modern Mexican food experience, Sonora is a restaurant & bar combining the contemporary with tradition. Created by Abraham Lule, the visual identity was imagined to combine a retro flair with futurism. Geometrical, sharp font was mixed with graphic red and occasional insets of black, white and navy. The typography was extended horizontally creating an exaggerated, modernist effect.

Graphic 78
article thumbnail

How to Use Your Email to Boost Your ROI

Noupe

Email marketing campaigns serve additional purposes on top of increasing a business’ sales. For one thing, they increase brand visibility, and for another – they encourage communication and feedback. Now, it is critically important to remember that email marketing is still marketing. Even if the communication is virtual, your customers are living people with all sorts of psychological conundrums that fact entails.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Love Like Blood: The Superb Macabre And Gothic Artworks Of Abigail Larson

Design You Trust

Abigail had ambitions of becoming an opera singer and joining the circus while growing up, and although neither of those ended up working out too well, she has been able to find a more suitable career for herself in the world of illustration. More: Abigail Larson, Artstation, Instagram, Facebook Abigail works primarily with pencil, ink, watercolor, and Photoshop, creating unique mixed-media.

article thumbnail

50 Rust Texture Examples

Noupe

Nature can be a great source of inspiration. Art has borrowed from nature for millennia. Even in our digitalized age, graphic designers still turn to nature for inspiration. In this article, we’ll look at rust textures as an often-overlooked alternative to more popular texture types. Using rich textures in your work can add a stronger composition, make it more eye-catching or increase the quality of your work by adding depth.

article thumbnail

Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

article thumbnail

20 Items on Etsy That’ll Help You Keep Your 2020 Resolutions

Brown Paper Bag

This post contains some affiliate links. If you make a purchase, Brown Paper Bag may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more here. Wow, ya’ll. It has been a MINUTE since I’ve written anything here. The reason—which I am sure is a broken record at this point— is that I was super busy stitching lovely custom embroidered collars from October up to Christmas.

More Trending

article thumbnail

4AD Designer Vaughan Oliver Dies at 62

Hi-Fructose

Vaughan Oliver, the artist behind so many memorable LP covers from 4AD, has died at 62. Bands in his body of work include The Breeders, Pixies, Scott Walker, TV on the Radio, Lush, Cocteau Twins, Modern English, The Mountain Goats, and several others. His sensibility played an enormous role in the public-facing aesthetic of the label, from his entrance to the label in the 1980s on.

article thumbnail

Announced: The Best and Worst Identities of 2019, Part 5: The Worst Noted

Under Consideration / Brand

“2019 Year in Review”. If you were disappointed with the lack of Worst inclusions from the Reviewed section, this might satiate your need for disdain. Plenty of clunkers this year in Noted. Here you go. See also: Part 1: The Most Notable Reviewed & Noted Part 2: The Best Reviewed Part 3: The Worst Reviewed Part 4: The Best Noted. Backgrounds: crops of photos by Sean Sinclair on Unsplash Fonts: Decoy by PSTL and Spoof by Polytype.

Fonts 58
article thumbnail

Hand-Stitched Flowers and Landscapes Revitalize Found Photographs by Artist Han Cao

Colossal

All images © Han Cao, shared with permission. Calligrapher and fiber artist Han Cao repurposes old photographs by stitching brightly colored flowers and landscapes directly onto each black and white image. Based in Palm Springs, the artist works with found photographs that are 5×7 inches or smaller, attaching multi-colored threads that she hopes alter the old narrative and give new meaning and life to each piece.

Artist 79
article thumbnail

Fav Photos Found In 2019: 64 Photos By 64 Photographers

Booooooom

article thumbnail

The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

article thumbnail

Striking Photographs Capture Ornate Patterns of Historic Iranian Mosques and Palaces

Colossal

All images © Fatemah Hosein Aghaei, shared with permission. Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran. Iran-based artist Fatemah Hosein Aghaei takes mesmerizing photographs that showcase the intricate patterns inside the country’s ancient buildings. The artist mostly features mosques in the Iranian city of Isfahan, which is located about 250 miles south of Tehran and is known for its Perso–Islamic designed structures, boulevards, covered bridges, palaces, tile-filled mosques, and minarets.

article thumbnail

Fake Science 101: A Less-Than-Factual Guide To Our Amazing World

Design You Trust

Fake Science 101 is the definitive, less-than-factual reference book for our modern times. Though the scientific community may sneer at its lack of data, experimentation, or actual information, it remains a handy tool to understand the phenomena we encounter every day. A well-informed reader will finish their study session with a crisp delusion of knowledge and head full of plausible sounding.

article thumbnail

Mobile Architecture Twists and Morphs in Futuristic Cityscapes by AUJIK

Colossal

In “ Spatial Bodies: Hong Kong & Shenzhen ,” the self-described “mysterious nature/tech cult” AUJIK imagines a Hong Kong and Shenzhen with architecture that shifts and moves seemingly on its own just like live organisms. Using AI and AR technologies, artist and AUJIK founder Stefan Larsson created the short film that depicts a futuristic cityscape with contracting and expanding buildings that are far from resembling typical rectangular skyscrapers.

article thumbnail

Singaporean Artist Depicts How Strange She Feels In Japan

Design You Trust

Being silent on a train or not seeing a trashcan anywhere are just some of the things you can only experience in Japan. After spending some time there, the Singaporean artist Evangeline Neo decided to demonstrate the differences between the Japanese culture and her homeland. More: Evangeline Neo, Instagram, Facebook h/t: playjunkie “I studied in Tokyo during 2010-2014 and noticed a lot of cultural.

Artist 47
article thumbnail

From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

article thumbnail

Beloved Futurist Syd Mead Dies at 86

Hi-Fructose

We have just learned of the death of legendary visionary concept artist and futurist Syd Mead. We were honored to do a fantastic article on his life and art in HF Vol.33. Below, for the first time, we are going to make that article written by Silke Tudor public for you to read it and learn about his life and worldview. More.

article thumbnail

Adharanand Finn, on Writing The Rise of the Ultra Runners

Spine Magazine

Courtesy Photo. Adharanand Finn initially set out to complete an assignment about ultramarathons for The Guardian. What happened next involved a two-year journey comprised of hundreds of miles captured not in an article, but in a book, The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance. Officially, an ultramarathon is anything past the marathon distance of 26.2 miles, though races vary from 50 kilometers (31.06 miles) to 500 kilometers (310.68 miles), and more.

Sports 98
article thumbnail

Logo Geeks 2019 Summary + Plans for 2020

Logo Geek

So we are nearly at the end of 2019, and since I’m aware most of us will be reflecting on the year, and planning ahead, I thought it worth sharing some of my big wins for the year, to discuss some of my plans for 2020, and to share with you some of my own […]. The post Logo Geeks 2019 Summary + Plans for 2020 first appeared on Logo Geek.

93
article thumbnail

A Dream Hotel for A Dream Vacation [Fiji]

Trendland

Designed for inter-generational travelers, the Kokomo Private Island is on the edge of the Kadavu Island Group in Fiji. From the spectacular scenery to the pristine ocean, this is what absolute paradise looks like! It’s also where complete privacy is yours to revel in. Above ground or below water, this secluded sanctuary is everything you could wish for, wherever you find yourself.

Travel 81
article thumbnail

Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

article thumbnail

Artist Spotlight: Salman Toor

Booooooom

Salman Toor is a Pakistani artist, currently living and working in New York City.

Artist 101
article thumbnail

Journals from Lisbon: Russ Pope On the Road, Part 1

Juxapoz Magazine

Instead of celebrating Christmas with gifts, I travel with my family in December. We’ve been doing this for years now, one year it’ll be the Dominican Republic, next it’ll be London or Barcelona. This year, we’re in Lisbon, Portugal. We took the train from New Hampshire to Boston, jumped a plane to JFK and then on to Portugal. After landing we got an Uber to the neighborhood we’re in this time, Bairro Alto.

Travel 54
article thumbnail

Letting the Idea Lead

Communication Arts

Multihyphenate creative Rohitash Rao talks about the importance of keeping the idea and the medium in sync.

69
article thumbnail

Sandu Publishing

Print PM

Sandu Publishing

article thumbnail

Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.

article thumbnail

Recess identity

Communication Arts

The fun identity for bar and game venue Recess evokes the feelings of leisurely Saturdays and childhood nostalgia.

55
article thumbnail

David William Baum

Communication Arts

Playing with structure and scale, Ben Mingo and Tim Roussilhe discovered a site design that enhances exploration of this fashion photographer’s work.

Fashion 38